Once Upon a Time in Moberly

Friday

Oct 12, 2012 at 2:00 PM

A look at Moberly's history

Debbie Fitzpatrick

Friday-Sunday, October 12-14, 2007•Kim Waller MHS choir director, is featured in a photo being serenaded by the a cappella group Measure X Measure during its performance Thursday night at the high school auditorium. The group is sponsored by the Moberly Council on the Arts, also gave school performances at MHS and GBE.•Shiela Miller, Randolph County Collector, showed off the newly installed deposit box at the Huntsville Courthouse. The box is located at the handicapped entrance on the south end of the front of the building. Residents may now pay their taxes after hours by using the deposit box and a printed receipt will be mailed.•The Missouri State Teachers Association announced the winners of its annual Media Awards competition in May and recently Bonnie Delaney presented the 2007 Media Award Newspaper-Features to Moberly Monitor-Index Publisher Bob Cunningham and staff members, Debbie Fitzpatrick and Marsha Hargus. Nominations were judged on originality, impact, objectivity, timeliness, appeal and contribution to education. MSTA is Missouri's leading education association with more than 45,000 members. It has been serving Missouri educators for 151 years.Sunday, October 13, 2002•Moberly High School candidates for the 2002 Homecoming Royalty celebration on October 18 include juniors Rachel Sander, Whitney Johnson, Dana Boardsen, Katie Beaverson; seniors, Dana Lucas, Katie McKeown, Jennifer Palmer and Heidi Fuhrman; juniors Walt Wilcox, Adam Mares, Aaron Briscoe, Clay Stansberry and seniors Joey Nance, Robert Schaedel, Dan Roth and Dennis Hill; freshmen Lanette Luntsford, Courtney Tompson, Chelsea Flock and Amy Kennison; sophomores, Cassie Cochran, Anne Mallory Dean, Ashley Cook and Emilee Farris; freshmen Alonzo Spiller, Tyler Benner, Joey Pindell and Rick Bryson and sophomores, Brandon Cable, Andrew Mayfield, Adam Patrick and Carlo Smith. Coronation will take place on October 16 with the Homecoming parade Friday afternoon and the football game against Fulton that night.Monday, October 14, 2002•Monday morning the crew from T.J. Contractors of Pleasant Hill, Ill., was pouring a new sidewalk on Johnson Street just across from the Moberly Post Office, featured in a photo on today's front page. The sidewalk project involves approximately 1,500 to 1,600 square yards of concrete.Monday, October 12, 1987•Geraniums in pots have decorated downtown Moberly during the summer months. Senseless vandalism over the weekend has reduced the surviving pots and plants by 21, according to police. Two of the vandalized pots and plants were featured in a photo on today's front page.Tuesday, October 13, 1987•Homecoming candidates at Westran High School are Patsy Alexander, senior; Becky Owings, junior; Denise Johnson, junior; Lessley Burton, senior; Jennifer Belzer, senior; Cheri Hooton, sophomore; Peggy Pirtle, sophomore; Robyn Pinegar, freshman; Nina Case, freshman; Chad Bailey, junior; Corey Brackelman, junior; Mike Denslow, senior; David Cox, senior; John Williams, sophomore; Tony Colley, senior; Jamie Drew, freshman; Mark Rader, freshman and Brad Nichols, freshman.Wednesday, October 14, 1987•Financial good news was received at the meeting of the Randolph County Ambulance District directors Tuesday night. Supt. David Hoper presented directors with the warranty deed to the building at 310 Patton which has been used as an ambulance garage since it was acquired five years ago. The building is now free of debt.Friday, October 12, 1962•Fire Chief Sam Stinebaker warned today that a city ordinance prohibits the burning of trash on asphalt streets. He said this practice is harmful to streets and added that the burning of trash on asphalt streets or any other streets is dangerous, as flying sparks can set fire elsewhere.•Pre-Halloween pranksters were busy in Huntsville last night. Four benches, in the courthouse yard were placed on top of the courthouse and a stop sign was carried away from Depot and Main Streets. Officers are investigating.•Lightning struck a tree in the front yard of the Leonard Jenkins home, 11109 High Street shortly after 11 o'clock this morning, causing extensive damage to the tree. According to E.E. Harrison, a neighbor of Mr. Jenkins, who was only ten feet from the bolt, the entire neighborhood "lit up like a flash camera bulb." When the bolt struck the tree it traveled approximately five feet to a water plug, digging a trench about a foot deep in the ground. No one was injured, though persons a block away reported they felt the shock.Saturday, October 13, 1962•The estimated cost of remodeling the Kelly Hotel building for use by the city is so high that the project may be abandoned, it was indicated today. City Councilmen now have in their hands a report by Abt and Cleavinger, architectural firm here, on how the Kelly Hotel building could be arranged for use by the city and the cost has been estimated by the firm as from $90,000 to $100,000.•Melvin Whitley of southwest of Salisbury placed second in the two-row competition in the national mechanical corn picking contest at Brand Island, Nebraska yesterday. He was the winner in a similar Missouri State contest held September 26 near Carrollton in which he competed against ten other men in the contest. The Carrollton competition was his first contest. Whitley had just bought his picking rig and had only picketed about three loads of corn with it before going to Carrollton.